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Furnace Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Furnace?
[n] an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
Synonyms | Synonyms for Furnace: Related Terms | Find terms related to Furnace: acid kiln | atomic pile | blacksmith shop | blast furnace | bloomery | boiler | bottle-gas stove | breeder reactor | brickkiln | bricks | burner | butane stove | calefactor | caliduct | cement kiln | chain reactor | chain-reacting pile | coal furnace | coal stove | cook stove | cooker | cookery | element | enamel kiln | equator | fast pile | forge | foundry | gas jet | gas stove | heater | heating duct | hell | heterogeneous reactor | homogeneous reactor | inferno | intermediate pile | jet | kiln | kitchener | lattice | limekiln | metalworks | muffle kiln | neutron factory | nuclear furnace | oven | pile | pilot light | plutonium reactor | power reactor | power-breeder reactor | pyrometer | pyrometric cone | radioactive waste | range | reactor | reactor pile | reverberatory | reverberatory kiln | rods | salamander | salamander stove | Seger cone | slow pile | smelter | smithery | smithy | steam bath | steam pipe | steel mill | steelworks | stellarator | stithy | stove | subtropics | tewel | Torrid Zone | tropics | tuyere | uranium reactor | warmer See Also | blast furnace | chamber | cremation chamber | crematorium | crematory | cupola | electric furnace | firebox | forge | gas furnace | grate | grating | incinerator | oil burner | oil furnace | register | tank furnace Furnace In Webster's Dictionary \Fur"nace\, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F.
fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to
E. forceps.]
1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the
combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting
metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as,
an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a
boiler furnace, etc.
Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when
the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast
furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection
artificially of a forcible current of air; and as
reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to
the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon
the materials operated upon.
2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial;
severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20.
{Bustamente furnace}, a shaft furnace for roasting
quicksilver ores.
{Furnace bridge}, Same as {Bridge wall}. See {Bridge}, n., 5.
{Furnace} {cadmiam or cadmia}, the oxide of zinc which
accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting
zinciferous ores. --Raymond.
{Furnace hoist} (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal,
etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.
\Fur"nace\, n. 1. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [Obs. or R.] He furnaces The thick sighe from him. --Shak. |
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